Arsenic caviar He has become one of the big revelations in the world of podcasts over the past year. In a sea of content, where podcasts seem to reproduce by spores and where it is increasingly difficult to stand out, Arsenic caviar a hole was made. Best of all? It’s proof that you don’t need an influencer or a famous face to make something work in this world. Just charisma, a production of ten and, of course, a good screenplay.
Beatriz Serrano and Guillermo Alonso, friends and journalist, started Arsenic caviar end of 2021 from the hand of Podium. In times when hatred unites, the two millennials began to fume in front of the microphone: each week a different subject to submit and a half. Against sports, birthdays, pop culture, offices, nostalgia… if you don’t care, you even appear on the program!
But unlike other conversational formats, Beatriz and Guillermo lead the conversation in a relaxed manner, with great respect and, above all, a sense of humor. They’re not looking to give a speech or a rally, just to have a good time, and if they bring an Ondas home along the way, even better! And it is that Arsenic Caviar is nominated for the best conversational podcast of the year at the Ondas del Podcast Awards.
The third season is about to air (launches April 18 on Podium and major streaming platforms), we chatted with Beatriz and Guillermo,
Question (Q): The first question is mandatory, where are you going to put the Ondas when you get it?
Beatrice: I haven’t thought of a fixed place, but I think I’ll sleep with him every night. I will also sit it next to me on the couch when I watch TV. Maybe I’ll take him for a walk too. I might buy him a few little dresses, summer or winter, and sit with Ondas in a cart in a playground, bragging about him and all his kindergarten accomplishments. There’s the stereotype of crazy babies or crazy cats, but I think there’s a fantastic market niche that isn’t covered yet: crazy Ondas.
Guillermo: I have in my memory many films in which someone dies when a price is nailed to him, that is to say, he falls on something with many edges. I remember one from Kenneth Brannagh with the bad guy dying by falling on a scissors sculpture, I think it was ‘Still Dying’. And our beloved evil parasitic twin eliminates a woman with her own prickly prize in “Evil.” As I have seen that the Ondas is a beautiful figure with some spikes, I will try, above all, to put it on top, since I have been very clumsy lately
Q: You’re not going to do episodes versus podcasts?
Beatrice: Note that Guillermo and I are very fond of shooting each other in the foot, even biting the hand that feeds us… so it wouldn’t be unreasonable to do so. The problem, I think, is that I don’t think anyone outside of the podcast world is the least bit interested in the concept of the podcast itself.
Guillermo: I think that here we would be embarking on a somewhat repeated and heavy joke: “Tooodoooo the world has a podcast”, they say now, Well look madam, yes, everyone has a podcast because it is enough to a microphone and something to tell the world, why bother? It’s your decision whether to listen to them or not.
Q: Does hate still sell that much? Why federate so much?
Beatrice: We always give the same example: you arrive at a new job and little by little you meet people, and surely, the person who ends up becoming your friend, the one who is able to cross the barrier of the office and enter the canes and confidences area, it’s not the one who told you what prettier shoes you have or the one who asks you about the weekend, but the one who, like you, deeply hates María Dolores, from human resources . In other words: hate is the spark of life. Hate makes us take off our masks and discover ourselves as we are. Hate, in a way, defines us much better. What we reject, what we do not want to approach, is what ends up constituting our personality.
Hate is the spark of life. Hate somehow defines us much better
You are both print journalists, is it more complicated to write a screenplay or a story for SEO?
Guillermo: I think I speak for both of us by saying that writing a story for SEO is above all boring, even if we understand very well that it has to be done and why it has to be done. And everything that is boring will always be more complicated for us. In a screenplay, there is more room for daydreaming, fiction and for what we love most in the world: talking about ourselves.
It’s true that by listening to the episodes, you really realize that you’re not so hateful as you say, pure facade?
Beatrice: We like to deal with many topics that, deep down, generate ambivalence and mixed feelings. That’s what interests me in life, in its lights and shadows, knowing that one thing cannot exist without the other. I think, in that sense, haterism is more of a look, a way of looking at things and starting to talk about them. In the end, even if it is difficult for us to admit it, we are beings of light.
Guillermo: I would say the very concept of hate is our clickbait. You just hate things, but in the end you stay because maybe we’re talking about issues that we can have fun with and relate to, especially those who are in this complicated age where we don’t is not yet old but not young either – young.
You are launching the third season, what subject do you most want to discuss?
Beatrice: We really want to deal with personal relationship issues that, so far, we haven’t dealt with, like love, heartbreak, or sex.
At the moment we don’t see any guests in this chat, have you thought about that?
Beatrice: Not now. We still have many topics we want to discuss, and often with guests there is a risk of falling into a more in-depth interview format than the conversation we are doing. With an interviewee, you can’t create the chemistry that we already have, or require them to listen to all the programs to understand our vibe and make the same jokes…and, from my point of view, that causes the idea of the podcast to completely change. original. At the moment, we don’t want that.
Guillermo: I’m with Beatriz, I don’t know if we want to become that kind of podcast where a guest goes. There are already many like that. And I think there’s a danger that the guest will merge with the podcast, instead of the podcast giving them prominence. I like the interview genre, now and since I was little. I was addicted to programs that it was better not to quote so as not to reveal my true age. Currently I love those made by Aimar Bretos, with this mix between the rigor of a journalist and the spontaneity of a podcaster. And then on television we have Bertín Osborne or Joaquín del Betis for those who want to see the interviewees playing ping-pong or frying an egg.
What other podcasts do you recommend we listen to?
Guillermo: I never recommend podcasts, there are so many millions of them and it’s so personal… I’m very amused by these people asking for podcast recommendations on Twitter and an hour later they have 450 replies, 300 of them with people recommending their own podcast. What will they do? Will the 450 listen? The only thing I can say is that I really like the amateur podcasts of people who, at home, without too many means, talk about things that interest them a lot, from Brian de Palma films to rural crimes in the black Spain.
Beatrice: I’m with Guillermo, I think something is happening to me too…and that’s that despite having a podcast I’m not a big podcast consumer. I hope they won’t take the Ondas from us after this information. The thing is, in the end, I feel like I’m going to recommend something a lot of people already know.
When is a live recording with an audience?
Guillermo: When it is given to us by a millionaire company with good sponsorship. As anyone who listens to the show knows, all we care about in life is money and outward beauty. And one thing leads to another.
Beatrice: Everything will go…
The third season of Arsenic Caviar is released on April 18.